Author details
All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
51% of people like this quote
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle in
Business
50% of people like this quote
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle
50% of people like this quote
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
50% of people like this quote
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Thomas Carlyle
50% of people like this quote
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle
50% of people like this quote
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle in
Love
50% of people like this quote
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle
49% of people like this quote
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle
49% of people like this quote
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle in
Business
49% of people like this quote
Related authors